I’m writing about Dante’s vision of hell,” he told The Sunday Times. “I’m not writing about the masons and ancient histories, which is kind of ethereal. “The early word is that it’s darker, which will whet the appetite for everyone because this is the fourth appearance of Robert Langdon and I think giving it that sort of twist, freshens it up for long-term readers,” the spokesman added.īrown, who is famous for his love of puzzling codes, conspiracies and other symbols, said the subject matter for the book was so vibrant and horrifying that it helped do a lot of the work for him. “We think it‘s going to be the fastest and biggest-selling book of the year because Dan Brown is in a league of his own” said a Waterstones spokesman. Sales of the book have already reached the highest level of customer pre-orders at retailer Waterstones since the release of Harry Potter author JK Rowling’s adult fiction The Casual Vacancy last year. In a similar vein Booksellers are predicting Inferno will become the biggest-selling book of the year. Langdon’s appearance in The Da Vinci Code was a literary phenomenon, selling 81 million copies in 51 languages. The clever professor is the only one who can figure out the doomsday puzzle, the first macabre piece of which is sewn into his bloody tweed jacket.
Dan Brown’s latest thriller, the Dante-inspired Inferno, puts Langdon in a hospital bed with no memory of how he wound up there. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is back.
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